Ho ho ho… Merry Christmas! Our 7th Podcast is a Christmas special. We passed 10,000 downloads in the last month and Mike, Jason and I wanted to give you a very special Christmas present. And here it is… our exclusive and extensive interview with Watford Manager Malky Mackay.

He tells you about what it takes to become a football manager, what he has to deal with day-to-day and how he felt when he didn’t get the managers job first time around. You can also hear two… yes two Christmas songs: The 12 Days of Watford and a very special Watford version of Mistletoe and Wine (it was released in 1988… and you’ll notice that I get it wrong in the podcast).

If you want to sing along the lyrics are below. We talk about the last month of Watford football, including our magnificent win away at QPR, and Don Cowie, Martin Taylor, Danny Graham and Adrian Marriappa pull a Christmas Cracker with us and tell the special jokes that come with them!

There are some long away trips coming up so we hope we can fill an hour of your journey to Ipswich, Scunthorpe and Cardiff. Merry Christmas and a Golden Boys New Year!

The 12 Days of Watford

On the 12 days of Watford my GT gave to me
12 goals for Graham
11 academy players
10th in the League
9 pies for Malky
8 minutes for Josh Walker
7 players on loan
6 goals at Millwall
5 away wins
4 goals for Taylor
3 points at Rangers
2 TV wins
And still just 1 goal for our Lloyd!

Mistletoe and Wine (the Watford version)

Malky’s our king, the Rookery Sing,
Ashcroft is going, it’s a new beginning
Dreams of East Stands, dreams of goals,
Dreams of a view, not obstructed by poles,

It’s Christmas time, Buckley down the line,
Hornets singing Watford based rhyme,
With Danny Graham scoring while
Loach keeps clean sheets
Who is the next team that Watford will beat?

A time for winning, a time for scoring,
A time for attacking, let’s not be boring
Troy and Marvin, Cowie, McGinn
With talent like that we surely must win,

It’s Christmas time, Buckley down the line,
Hornets singing Watford based rhyme,
With Danny Graham scoring while
Loach keeps clean sheets
Who is the next team that Watford will beat?

So what of the back line, well they are just fine,
Lloyd, Aidy and Martin all protecting the goal line,
Captain Eustace, leading the fight
Powerful tackling, white teeth shining bright

It’s Christmas time, Buckley down the line,
Hornets singing Watford based rhyme,
With Danny Graham scoring while Loach keeps clean sheets
Who is the next team that Watford will beat?